The European Commission has decided to take the United Kingdom to the European Court of Justice on the grounds that urban waste water collecting systems and treatment facilities in London and Whitburn in north east England do not comply with EU legislation. European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said: ' More attention needs to be paid to upgrading collecting systems to ensure full ...

Four associations representing the Nation’s wastewater treatment, public works, and civil engineering sectors have released the Core Attributes of Effectively Managed Wastewater Collection Systems, a new document that promotes good engineering practices essential to managing and operating separate sanitary collection systems. As a critical element of wastewater infrastructure, ...

Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for smart wet infrastructure, today announced the release of InfoNet Generation V15.5, a comprehensive set of smart asset performance and condition modeling applications for water, wastewater, and storm water networks. The latest release significantly extends key features and ...

The European Commission has decided to send a formal request to Germany concerning the award of services for the collection and disposal of waste water by the city of Hamm to the water association Lippeverband in the year 2003 without carrying out tender procedures. This formal request takes the form of a 'reasoned opinion', the second stage of the infringement procedure laid down in Article 226 ...

Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for smart wet infrastructure, today announced the release of InfoNet Generation V17, a comprehensive set of smart asset performance and condition modeling applications for water, wastewater, and storm water networks. The latest release ...

Work is wrapping up on GTI's involvement with the Slave Lake Pulp project. The custom-designed cover and liner system complements the design of the anaerobic reactor selected to pretreat the pulp mill’s wastewater. GTI’s gastight cover will capture the biogas from anaerobic treatment of the mill effluent and deliver the gas for use in three electrical generators. ...

A comprehensive settlement has been reached with the City and County of Honolulu that will address Clean Water Act compliance at Honolulu’s wastewater collection and treatment systems, the Justice Department, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Hawaii Attorney General’s Office, Hawaii Department of Health, and three environmental groups announced today. The settlement which ...

MWH Soft, a leading global innovator of wet infrastructure modeling and simulation software and technologies, today announced that Wessex Water, United Kingdom, has expanded its use of InfoWorks CS to include InfoWorks 2D’s two-dimensional above-ground modeling and the capability to model large and complex collection systems of up to 100,000 nodes. The decision further substantiates MWH Soft’s ...

Geomembrane Technologies Inc. (GTI) is pleased to have been contracted for a cover project at a large fruit processing plant located in Pennsylvania, USA. GTI’s gas collection cover has been chosen for the fruit processing facility’s new anaerobic digester. The anaerobic digestion process naturally produces biogas, which ...

Geomembrane Technologies Inc. (GTI) is pleased to have been contracted to provide a customized gas collection cover system for a major Brazilian dairy group in the state of Goias. GTI looks forward to applying its extensive experience as part of a large wastewater treatment upgrade at this dairy plant. GTI’s participation in the ...

Geomembrane Technologies Inc. (GTI) is pleased to have been chosen for a tank cover project at a newly-constructed dairy ingredients plant in Southwestern USA. GTI will custom-design, fabricate, and install a gas collection cover for a bolted steel tank at the plant. Our staff will also ...

The headspace in domestic wastewater collection and treatment systems is a severe environment that can impact even high performance protective coatings. A proposed new ASTM International standard covers an apparatus and set of procedures that are used to create and maintain a simulated sewer headspace environment to be used to test potential coatings. ...

US demand for water and wastewater pipe is expected to rise more than ten percent per year to $18.3 billion in 2016. Gains will rebound strongly from the declining demand experienced during the 2006-2011 period, in which pipe markets were negatively impacted by the 2007- 2009 recession. Going forward, rising demand will be fueled by a more favorable environment for public infrastructure spending, ...

The City of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, has chosen InfoSWMM software as its advanced sanitary sewer and stormwater modeling and design solution. The decision helps the city leverage its investment in ArcGIS technology from ESRI (Redlands, CA) by giving it the most technologically advanced GIS-centric software platform available for managing and operating its wastewater and stormwater systems. ...

Geomembrane Technologies Inc. (GTI) will be exhibiting at booth #35 of BioCycle REFOR15, which takes place October 20-21, 2015, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. As the official conference of the American Biogas Council, BioCycle REFOR15 focuses on renewable energy, organic recycling, and composting. BioCycle REFOR15 provides professionals with the opportunity to learn more about innovative ...

US EPA joined the Indian Health Service last week at a groundbreaking ceremony on the Tule River Reservation for the largest-funded stimulus Tribal wastewater infrastructure project nationwide. EPA is contributing USD6.3 million to the project through the Clean Water Indian Set Aside program; the Indian Health Service is providing an additional USD1.8 million. "This sewage ...

Someone recently asked, “What are the wastewater treatment options for landfill leachate?” According to statistics from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the number of landfills in the United States is 1,654. And according to CNBC, active landfills handle more than 250-million tons of trash created in the United States each year. Statistics suggest that landfills can ...

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